> The savviest webmasters (who promote their sites best, know SEO, etc.) are the first to play with a new tool like Google places, which is why you see their pages so highly represented in the top results.
By savviest webmasters you mean Google, since they generate the pages. Yes, they have very good SEO. Nonetheless, in many places this is deemed unfair competition
I'm not sure how that answered the parent's point. SlyShy claimed that the pages who are at the top of search results are more likely to be tech savvy, and therefore more likely to use Google Places (and therefore have a link to Google Places next to their search result). I think that's an interesting alternative explanation, although obviously we can't really tell whether the parent's interpretation is more accurate than TechCrunch's or not without looking at data.
I don't understand what you meant though. Can you clarify please?
By savviest webmasters you mean Google, since they generate the pages. Yes, they have very good SEO. Nonetheless, in many places this is deemed unfair competition